Ministry of Power today said it has issued guidelines to procure wind power through ‘transparent’ tariff based competitive bidding process.
Government has issued guidelines providing a framework for procurement of wind power through a "transparent process" of bidding including standardisation of the process and defining of roles and responsibilities of various stakeholders.
“These guidelines aim to enable the distribution licensees to procure wind power at competitive rates in a cost effective manner,” read the gazette published by Ministry of Power.
The guidelines are applicable for procurement of wind power from grid-connected Wind Power Projects (WPP) having individual size of 5 Mega Watt (MW) and above at one site with minimum bid capacity of 25 MW for intra-state projects; and individual size of 50 MW and above at one site with minimum bid capacity of 50 MW for inter-state projects.
“These guidelines will give boost to the wind power sector as it would facilitate the windy states to go for bidding ...

The central government has put in place detailed guidelines for wind power generators to plug loopholes in contracts, reduce disputes and help achieve its ambitious target of generating 60,000 mw of power from the renewable energy source.
"The wind power generator (WPG), in a bid to ensure timely commencement of power, will have to submit documents pertaining to land acquisition, no objection certificate and environment clearance, forest clearance and letter from the state and central transmission utilities confirming technical feasibility of connectivity," according to the 20 page guideline issued by the union ministry of power for tariff based competitive bidding process for procurement of power from grid connected wind power projects.
Further, if the WPG supplies energy less than the energy corresponding to the minimum capacity utilisation factor (CUF), he will be liable to pay to the procurer, penalty for the shortfall in availability of energy, according to the norms.
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In a bid to boost the clean energy production in the country, the Centre on Tuesday issued guidelines for transparent procurement of wind power through tariff-based competitive bidding.
The norms are significant because the government had decided to put for bidding 10 GW wind capacities each in 2018 -19 and 2019-20 to meet the target of 60 GW by 2022. At present, wind power installed capacity is 32 GW.
These guidelines aim to enable the distribution licensees to procure wind power at competitive rates in a cost-effective manner.
The guidelines issued under Section 63 of the Electricity Act, 2003, providing a framework for procurement of wind power through a transparent process of bidding including standardisation of the process and defining of roles and responsibilities of various stakeholders, a power ministry statement said.
The guidelines are applicable for procurement of wind power from grid-connected wind power projects (WPP) having individual size of 5 MW and above at one site with minimum bid ...

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Government has issued Guidelines under Section 63 of the Electricity Act, 2003 providing a framework for procurement of wind power through a transparent process of bidding including standardisation of the process and defining of roles and responsibilities of various stakeholders.

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